Who would publicly admit this, and even publicly talk about something this personal in this way?
It's like the internet has made "attention whoring" the centre of our economy.
It's like the internet has made "attention whoring" the centre of our economy.
Kim Kardashians empire is now worth 5 billion $$$. These new life forms the attention ecosystem produces hardly resembles anything seen in the past. Everyday people start adopting celebrity techniques. Visibility is like oxygen to them, while the pre-attention ecosystem life treat it as exposure. We are seeing two diverging sub species.
You might as well say "I behaved irresponsibly and as I write this I am still irresponsible. What to do, O what to do??"
How about take responsibility for yourself?
Digital algorithms now play a role in those belief systems, and the broadcasting of lifes in those digital platforms is a key part of it.
The question "how to take responsibility for yourself?" and similar rejection attitudes nowadays act more like a public encouragement to self-shun. It is, in itself, an act of broadcasting with the explicit goal of interacting with such belief systems.
The most obscene thing you can do in such an arrangement of beliefs is to expose one of the belief systems. It is kind of an attention grabbing mechanism, but very different from Kardashian-style media presence. It's way, way more obscene.
I get meaning from reminding my fellow adults about what it means to BE an adult, instead of a child. I am marketing a philosophy of living.
I don't claim he is the one being obscene. I think he's quite conservative (the idea of AI influencing behavior is not new and his example is simplistic). I was talking about myself attempting to describe these dynamics in more clear cut terms.
It's also not universally obscene, it's obscene in a "everybody knows but you are not supposed to talk about it" way.